A "máquina do tempo": representações do passado, história e memória na sala de aula / The "time machine": Representations of past, History and memory in the classroom

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

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The research investigated historical learning aspects based on the work with the cultural patrimony. The objective was to identify and to analyze the representations of children about time, past and history during the work with historical concepts about to the past of the local community, having the memory and history of the school and of the neighborhood as a reference. The hypothesis was that cultural patrimony, as a bearer of several senses (historical, political, cultural and social), would potentiate the significance of historical concepts and the establishment of differentiated relations of children with the discipline. A qualitative investigation was carried out to coordinate the issues that involve the building of historical knowledge and to analyze learning aspects, with a basis on activities with the historical-cultural patrimony of the place where the research subjects live and study. The starting point consisted of theoretical references relating to research about the teaching of History and of the proposals of educative action at museums and other historical places. To understand the processes of individual and group knowledge building, the work included penetration in the fields of psychology of development and learning of the socio-interactionist base and of social psychology, with the theory of social representations. The understanding of these processes was articulated with the references of researchs about the specificity of historical learning and of the building of historical thought by children. The empirical research was carried out at a school from the municipal network of Sao Paulo, with a class of 36 students between 10 and 14 years of age, from the first year of cycle II of elementary school (5th grade), during the History classes. The participant observation concentrated on the monitoring, description and analysis of the meanings that the children attributed to historical concepts and information. An attempt was made to identify how the students represent historical knowledge worked on at different times and on different bases: personal and collective memory, historical records and evidence, the theories and inferences brought up by the teacher, by other adults involved and by the children themselves. The research contributed to evidence the ideas and representations of historical knowledge by the children - what children learn, the senses and meanings formed when they learn History. It also permitted an understanding of the role of mental representation building processes and their interaction with social representations in the ways students approach, interpret, comprehend and express historical content at school and in other places. An explanation was provided about the specificities of historical thought and the multiplicity of its forms in the knowledge building process. Based on the work with the local patrimony, memory and history, the children embarked on a process of providing new meaning to their conceptions about concepts of time, past and history.

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historical learning cultura material ensino de história material culture concept building memory patrimony aprendizagem histórica memória representations patrimônio construção de conceitos history teaching representações

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